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Post-mortem Sampling in Hip-hop Recordings and the

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Copyright Year	2016
Description	This chapter discusses instances of US rappers sampling the voice of a deceased rapper, what I call 'post-mortem sampling', that is, the use of a recording (sound or image) of a deceased artist with great cultural heft – for example, figures such as Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury, John Lennon and Michael Jackson. In post-mortem sampling, authenticity can be claimed through the use of the recorded sound or image, and its framing through recontextualisation. The presence of the Tupac hologram at 2012's Coachella festival, performing with Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, reveals an intensification of the impulse to 'sample' murdered rappers to multiple ends. I will show how deceased rappers are lamented, through both the lyrical citation of such artists and the sampling of their voices, with particular reference to the hip-hop 'martyrs' The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Rappers such as Jay-Z (Shawn Carter), Eminem (Marshall Mathers) and Nas (Nasir Jones) sample the voices of Shakur and B.I.G. post-mortem, and both the sampled voice (with its biographical associations) and the sonic organisation of the beat provide new meaning in their updated contexts. Book Name: Death and the Rock Star
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Ending Page	216
Page Count	12
Starting Page	205
DOI	10.4324/9781315575940-23
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2016-03-03
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Death and the Rock Star Cultural Studies Rappers Deceased Sample the Voices Hip Hop Post Mortem
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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